This volume offers the transliteration, translation, and selected copies of over 600 administrative documents on the textile industry in the Ebabba...

The aim of the present conference volume is to study the interrelationship of literary and material approaches to historical investigation of gende...

Spawning an empire ranging from Persia to China, Genghis Khan united a nomadic warrior culture that had lived with their agrarian neighbors through...

George Washington speaks for himself on behalf of liberty and the emerging American republic in this book, the only one-volume compilation in print...

George Washington speaks for himself on behalf of liberty and the emerging American republic in this book, the only one-volume compilation in print...

Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced...

Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced...

The Old South has a rich and fascinating history, filled with extravagant personalities. This collection from ghost researcher Edrick Thay explores...

The ghosts of the past still haunt the dusty gold rush towns and frontier outposts where the legendary West was born and died. Dan Asfar explores t...

This stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, t...

This stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, t...

My brother officers. Are they human? Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of...

When Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didn’t know she would be facing a constant battle with cold,...

From California's 49ers to the Klondikers in the Yukon, men and women with a lust for fortune and adventure stampeded to the gold fields of the Wes...

'Gold, or I'm a Dutchman!' Ernest Mansfield exclaimed as he pored over specimens of rock and sand that the local rector had brought back from Svalb...

This book is an attempt at an objective history about the Reformation. It presents the facts, but does not pursue any theory, or forward any cause....

"A classic. It provides an invaluable aid to anyone seeking to understand Plato and Aristotle in their historical context. Dover uses a variety of ...

A reprint, with corrections, of the University of California and Basil Blackwell editions of 1974.

Greek Religion: A Sourcebook provides an introduction to the fundamentals of ancient Greek religious beliefs and rituals through a rich collection ...